System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer - how to customize the voice?

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Published on 2010-06-15T11:56:16Z Indexed on 2010/06/15 12:02 UTC
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Hello. SpeechSynthesizer allows peaking different voices by using SelectVoiceByHints(VoiceGender, VoiceAge)function (as I understood). But no customization happens if I change the gender and voice age.

Can you explain why? And if I'm doing something wrong, what is correct way to do that?

Thank you.

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